573226 - unuseful copy on the desktop when opening an attached document

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311292

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[alain.boudet0]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5

Suppose I receive an email with an attached document, whatever it be. Every time I open it with its appropriate application, a copy of it is left on the desktop. So I have to delete them everytime

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.As explained in the details
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Expected Results:  
That the copy is not left. If I want to keep it, I must "save as.."

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Have you tried safe mode? (see https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode for more information)

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

See bug #311292 comment #36 for workaround.

Comment 3

[alain.boudet0]

Thank you for your answers.
I have read the bug 311292.
So the situation is that it is a real bug that should be corrected in future Mac versions.

And meanwhile, we can cope with the bug by changing in this way, that I recall in a condensed and more easy way:

Go to Preferences->Attachments) and click the radio-button next to "Save files to". Then click the "Choose..." button and select the folder where you want to store *temporary* files when they are opened.
Do that even if you deselect this choice because it keeps it in memory !!

After that, you make the other choice if you want:
select the radio-button next to "Always ask me where to save files".
But if you choose to "open" a file, it will always default to saving it in the folder you specified in the Preferences dialog.

Problem understood, but ONLY TEMPORARILY solved